The Heroic Moment
“Just after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, I talked my mother into signing papers [for me] to join the Navy . . . I had just turned 15 years old.”
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‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’
Final Installment
I chabod, who had no relish for this strange midnight companion, and bethought himself of the adventure Full Story
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest on Stage at CHS
One of America’s premier dramas will be performed this weekend at Carmel High School.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, written by Ken Kesey, is set in an Oregon asylum and studies the effects of the institutional process on the human mind.
The script has been listed in Time Magazine’s best 100 plays of the century. Full Story
Renee Gargano Honored at Retirement Gathering
Renee Gargano’s retirement blast resembled a “who’s who in education!” More than 300 guests crowded into the main ballroom at Colonial Terrace in Cortlandt Manor last Thursday evening to recognize a woman who was remembered as an “institution within an institution.” Full Story
C.U.B.S. Being Used as Positive Reinforcement Tool in Brewster
Visit the Garden Street School or John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Brewster these days and be prepared to see cub paw prints throughout the buildings. “C.U.B.S.” is a mnemonic device standing for “Caring, Use responsible behavior, Be respectful, and Safety matters.” Full Story
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